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12 hours ago · Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, on November 11, 1922, the youngest of three children of Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (1884–1956) and his wife Edith (1888–1944; née Lieber). His older siblings were Bernard (1914–1997) and Alice (1917–1958).
1 day ago · Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (1963) Kurt Vonnegut was a man of mixed signals – or, more charitably, a man of Whitman’s contradictory multitudes. He was a self-declared humanist who once wrote, “Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
2 days ago · A walk through the Lilly Library’s stacks is a journey through time and space, a new discovery beckoning, sometimes only by luck. One of my favorite things is getting to explore in directionless abandon. In this instance, though, I had a sure path. I was searching for a specific quotation from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. It was a ...
1 day ago · On Sept. 28 and 29, two back-to-back events at The Academy Playhouse will celebrate and shine the spotlight on this special place, its history, and its place as a valued part of the community. On Sept. 28, the playhouse teams up with filmmaker Liz Argo to take a look back at the Orleans Arena Theatre, which was run by the Argo family. Argo will ...
4 days ago · Spanning Vonnegut's half-century literary career, Kurt Vonnegut's America integrates discussion of myriad fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it emerged--and which it in turn helped shape.
5 days ago · Slaughterhouse-Five, antiwar novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1969. The absurdist, nonlinear work blends science fiction with historical events, notably the Dresden firebombing of World War II. It is considered a modern-day classic.
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5 days ago · Watch on. During the 2018 Letters Live show in New York City, the great James Earl Jones used his gorgeous baritone voice to read a humorously inspiring response letter by author Kurt Vonnegut to a group of Xavier High School students who contacted him as part of a 2006 school project. In 2006, a group of students at Xavier High School in New ...
